[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] afpacket: fix critical issue reported by klocwork

Cunming Liang cunming.liang at intel.com
Thu Feb 12 10:08:09 CET 2015


Klocwork report 'req' might be used uninitialized.
In some cases it can 'goto error' when '*internals' not been set.
The result is unexpected checking the value of '*internals'.

Signed-off-by: Cunming Liang <cunming.liang at intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c b/lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
index 1ffe1cd..185607d 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pmd_af_packet/rte_eth_af_packet.c
@@ -439,13 +439,15 @@ rte_pmd_init_internals(const char *name,
 	size_t ifnamelen;
 	unsigned k_idx;
 	struct sockaddr_ll sockaddr;
-	struct tpacket_req *req;
+	struct tpacket_req *req = NULL;
 	struct pkt_rx_queue *rx_queue;
 	struct pkt_tx_queue *tx_queue;
 	int rc, qsockfd, tpver, discard;
 	unsigned int i, q, rdsize;
 	int fanout_arg __rte_unused, bypass __rte_unused;
 
+	*internals = NULL;
+
 	for (k_idx = 0; k_idx < kvlist->count; k_idx++) {
 		pair = &kvlist->pairs[k_idx];
 		if (strstr(pair->key, ETH_AF_PACKET_IFACE_ARG) != NULL)
-- 
1.8.1.4



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